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THE I 



Lick Skillet Wedding, 



AN ORIGINAL SKETCH 



IK OXE ACT, 

/ 

Jty A. II. GIBSON. 



With Cast of Characters, Description of Costumes, Entrances and 

Exits, Relative position of the performers on the stage, 

and the whole of the stage business carefully 

marked from the author's original 

manuscript. 






Entered according to act of Congress in the year 188 4, ty 

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THE LICK SKILLET WEDDING. 



CHARACTERS. 



Squire Smith, 

Jerry Cobb, . 
Mrs. Frizzle. 

Mag. Frizzle. 



Scene — a kitchen. 



Time — any you wish. 



Time in representation twenty mimitc3» 



COSTUMES. 

Mag. — A showy calico dress, sleeves rolled up and hair in every 
lirectioni 
Sguire. — Long-tailed coat, steve-pipe hat, and umbrella. 
Mrs. Frizzle. — Old calico dress, and rag over her head. 
Jerry. — A ridiculous style of dress. 



TMP92-009284 



The Lick Skillet Wedding. 



SCENE — An untidy kitchen, chairs scattered all around, a rickety 
table fall of tinware, a icash basin full of potatoes, yjhich Mag* is 
paring, Mrs. Frizzle churning near the table — a knock, Mag. goes to 
door. Noise of dog barking. 

Mag. It's you Is it, Squire? Git out, youyeller pup! Thatdorg 
is mighty Valyble, boss, but be ain't goin' to waste bis manners on 
anybody's carcass. But come right hi Squire. 

Enter Squire Smith, c. d., with pantaloons torn here and there — appar- 
ently in a rage. 

Mrs. F. Do tell! is this the Squire? What's the matter man? 
you sputter like you was mad. May be you're feared to do up the 
mariyin' bizz? It is a thing 

Squire. Madam, if I had a piece of artillery about me, I would 
perforate the lemon colored epidermis of that lank canine out there, 
till the winds of Lick Skillet Ridge, rip through him in obstreperous 
hallelujahs ! 

Mag. ( laughing loudly) Ha ! Ha ! Heck's been a cuddlin' up to 
you like a sick kitten to a hot brick. Squire you needn't apologize for 
the purp. He wanted to heft your store clothes was all, Heck's the 
boss and don't you forget it. I s'pose you come to hitch me and 
Jerry, and then Heck's mine, right side up with care. 

Squire. Madam, I can't stand this indignity, I * 

Mag. Of course you can't stand it Squire, but we got lots of cheers 
so just drop into one and rest yourself. (Squire Smith sit, it. 

Mrs. F. Mag. you hurry up with them pertaters now, we will git 
at the marryin' bizz pretty soon Squire— you see we are busy but' 
that don't make no odds to us, we's always ready. I s'pose Old Friz 
told you to come to-day * 



4 THE LICK SKILLET WEDDING. 

Squire. "No madam, he requested me to suit my own convenience, 

Mrs. F. Law now, Squire, and did you suit that long word you 
spit up just then ? Lord bless me ! sich a word ! 

Squire. I had the leisure to devote to the wedding to-day, go I 
came. I wish madam, you would call the bride if she has finished 
her toilet, for I am anxious to get the job off my hands. 

Mag. "Call the bride" ! Hear the critter! Just as if I was not 
the very hairpin that's to be spliced ! Squire, I guess your tussle 
Avith Heck has made you cross-eyed so you can't see I've got on my 
new caliker ? 

3Irs. F. Yes, Mag's the one that's goin' to hitch with Jeremiah 
Cobb— but we call him Jerry for short. You see, Old Friz, that's 
my possum, and Jerry's pap played together in their brathood, and 
when Old Cobb died, Old Friz couldn't rest till he brought Jerry 
home, and Heck too. Heek was a purp then, and Jerry wasn't 
mor'n a kid. Well I just acted like a mother to Jerry, and learned 
him all the manners and grammatics I knew. Hang this butter ! I 
wish it'd come. Mag, blarst the luck don't drap your old tater par- 
inson my clean floor that a — way! Yes, Squire, I think a heap of 
Jerry, I like his dorg putty tolable like, but he is all-fired quick about 
tearing folks. I don't think Mag. can do better, for Jerry is the most 
likliest chap on Lick Skillet Ridge. 

Mag. You're shouting now marm, but I like Heck a heap sight 
mor'n I do Jerry, Heck is the most hifalutin' dorg on Lick Skil- 
let on a coon or possum chase; you or'to come over and jine one of 
our coon hunts, Squire, you would be tea-kettled from the rim of 
your stove-pipe to the sole of your hoof, to see Heck shake a coon ; I 
wasn't goin' to hitch to Jerry till he vummed he'd sell Heck if I 
said no, so I give in. Squire, that air Heck am too valyable a con- 
dition to the family to lose. Well, marm, the taters is pared. 

Mrs. F. Let 'em set a while and call Jerry and git the thing over. 
Old Friz ain't to home, but nobody cares for him, I 'spectthe Squire's 
gettin' skittish a settin' so long. It's iio use waiting any longer. 

Squire. Thank you, I should like to perform the ceremony, as I 
wish to get home. If you will call in the bridegroom, I'll feel very 
grateful. 

Mag. Well we'll soon have thishitchin' business over, like pullin' 
a tooth. {going to d. c. 

Mrs. F. Oh, hold on a jifl'y, Mag, I want to settle sumthih' fust. 
You see, Squire, Jerry's got consider' ble of property. Deed he has ! ! 
He has two hundred hoop poles up along Bug Branch, and two 
bushels of turnips comin' from old Grimb)' - , and a sheer in that coon : 
him and another feller cotched last Sunday. An' he's got a pair of j 
fourteen shillin' cow-hide shoes and a bran splinter new pair of Ken-j 
tiuky jane overhauls. So you see, Squire, Jerry's well fixed, Jerry } 



THE LICK SKILLET WEDDING. o 

ain't very wholesome, I think he's got indigestion of the lungs, and' 
inflammatory gizzardology. Well what I want to know is, can his or- 
nary brother Lige claim them shoes and jane overhauls and that air 
Heck, or will they go to his sorrowin' winder, with the hoop poles? 

Squire. Have no feavs, Mrs. Frizzle, your daughter will get Mr. 
Cobh's property on his decease. 

Mrs. F. Then call in Jerry and we will git this through with 
hells on. 

Mag. (at door yelling) Jcr-ri-ee! Jer-ri-ee! Yon, Jerry! 

Jerry, (outside) What d'you want? You're alius hollerin'. 

Mag. The Squire's come you big lumuiix! Come iD and git 
hitched. 

Enter Jerry, c. d., with, pants rolled up, in shirt sleeves. 

Jerry. ( l.) Might let a feller clean out the stable fust. 

Mrs. F. Wa'al, I guess your barn' 11 keep till this thing- gits over 
with. 

Jerry. Squire, what's the splicin' fees? 

Squire, (rising) I have been in the habit of taking my fees out 
in trade. 

Jerry. Well boss, I hope you won't feelahove takin' hoop poles or 
somethin' we have stacks of. 

Mag. We've got a slammin' big pumpkin patch Squire, and if you 
are fond of sass we will fetch you over a load. 

Squire. We will talk about that after the marriage. 



Ihcy male ridiculous attempts to get in what they think the proper pos- 
ition to assume, and finally take an awkward stand with their backs 
to the Squire. 

Squire. You have failed to get the proper position. Allow me — 

Jerry. I know how to git, I guess, without any interferin'. That 
ain't right, Mag. This is the way. (turning Mag around 

Mag. Shut your old clam of a mouth, Jerry Cobb, I ain't as green 
as you are, it's this way, I know. (turns Jerry 

Jerry. Dry your racket, Mag, or you'll die the death of a rag doll. 
I guess I or'toknow! I seed Parson Watson hitch Lige to Betsy 
Scroggins. 

Mag. Jerry Cobb, do you see anything green in my eyes ? Let 
go of my hand! If it wasn't for Heck, I'd be hanged afore 
I'd he spliced to 3 r ou. 

Squire. To save time, allow me to arrange your position. 
places them properly) There, you have the right — 



6 THE LICK SKILLET WEDDING. 

Mrs. F. Jerry Cobb, ef you hain't left them bars, to that turnip 
patch down and that pesky yaller-buff ycarlin' heifer's chawm' 
up half the winter's bilin'. Git out or I hist you — you too Mag, and 
get her out. (exeunt, Jerry, Mag, and Mrs. Frizzle, c. d. 

Squire. Dash it! I was mad for the minute at that confounded 
dog! If I could only have vented my spleen on his seedy body, 
there would have been no existing Heck on Lick Skillet by. George ! 
Just see what a wreck my clothes are in. It's no use showing anger 
to these people, they are too illiterate to appreciate ones indignation. 
I hope they'll soon succeed in getting the yaller-buff heifer out of 
mischief, for I am most anxious to fetter in wedlock the most il- 
lustrious couple on Lick Skillet Eidge. 

Enter Jerry, Mag, and Mrs. Frizzle, c. d., all panting as if exhausted. 

Jerry. Well, Squire we had a lively run of it, I tell you. But 
the pesky things'll not stop the wedding wheel. Now, old woman, 
not a gob of your taffy again, till this plaguey bizz is settled. Now 
old cyclone, you fix Mag. and me and sing your song. 

After the ceremony is concluded in dumb show, the Squire attempts 
to kiss the bride, when Jerry knocks him down. 3Irs. Frizzle jumps 
up and grabs a broom, and knocks all the others about, chasing them 
around the stage as 



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